Tribe: Lenape Tribe (Delaware)
Activity 1: Pleasing the Spirits Description: In my time with this tribe I came across a ritual that was for the good and evil spirits. In this activity, everyone was involved because it called upon everybody to please these spirits. What everyone had to do was to give offerings that would be pleasing to them. This was completed wherever the Lenape believed the spirits lived. This activity is a never-ending ritual, because they would never want to offend these spirits. They do this because they believe that the good spirits created the world, and they believe that the evil ones are responsible for sickness and death.
Activity 2: Smoking of tobacco Description: In smoking tobacco, the main people that use it were the shamans, chiefs, and councilors. Also, anybody used it in rituals to the spirits. Smoking tobacco was done during important decisions by the chiefs and councilors, shamans used it for driving diseases away, and it would be tossed into the fire when someone …show more content…
The people involved in this would be the family and I think the shaman. In this custom, people would be placed in a shallow grave where their legs were bent to be closer to the body, their hands were close to their chest, and sometime there was food placed in a pot to give the dead strength to make it to heaven. This would take place in open areas or even forested spots. This is done normally when a person died around the age of 35, sometimes it was a child being buried, some had names and some didn’t because they weren’t given a name yet. The tribe did this in hoping that either the good people would live with the Great Creator who they called Kishelemukong in the highest heaven, and for the evil people they would have to stay outside of the “happy hunting ground.” When a person died their name would die, this meant that their name had to not be mention otherwise it would cause sadness to the
Activity 1: Pleasing the Spirits Description: In my time with this tribe I came across a ritual that was for the good and evil spirits. In this activity, everyone was involved because it called upon everybody to please these spirits. What everyone had to do was to give offerings that would be pleasing to them. This was completed wherever the Lenape believed the spirits lived. This activity is a never-ending ritual, because they would never want to offend these spirits. They do this because they believe that the good spirits created the world, and they believe that the evil ones are responsible for sickness and death.
Activity 2: Smoking of tobacco Description: In smoking tobacco, the main people that use it were the shamans, chiefs, and councilors. Also, anybody used it in rituals to the spirits. Smoking tobacco was done during important decisions by the chiefs and councilors, shamans used it for driving diseases away, and it would be tossed into the fire when someone …show more content…
The people involved in this would be the family and I think the shaman. In this custom, people would be placed in a shallow grave where their legs were bent to be closer to the body, their hands were close to their chest, and sometime there was food placed in a pot to give the dead strength to make it to heaven. This would take place in open areas or even forested spots. This is done normally when a person died around the age of 35, sometimes it was a child being buried, some had names and some didn’t because they weren’t given a name yet. The tribe did this in hoping that either the good people would live with the Great Creator who they called Kishelemukong in the highest heaven, and for the evil people they would have to stay outside of the “happy hunting ground.” When a person died their name would die, this meant that their name had to not be mention otherwise it would cause sadness to the